Free shipping is the top incentive for 9 out of 10 consumers to shop more on an online store, according to this Marketing Land article. In addition, almost half of online shoppers will add to their carts to qualify for free shipping. Free shipping tends to be one of the strongest drivers that affects customer behaviour.

With that in mind, we’re excited to announce our new Shipping Bar app for Shopify stores that can help you highlight free or flat-rate shipping so that you can boost your sales and grow your average order values. Read More…

We have some really exciting news to share today, as we’ve been working on a new version of Product Customizer for quite some time now, and we’re releasing these changes to shops throughout this week!

We’ve spent the past year completely re-architecting the app to make it a lot more flexible for merchants’ needs. After helping thousands of Shopify merchants set up stores that sell personalized or customized products, it was clear to us that we’d need to make some changes to support stores of all different kinds of sizes to help them sell various types of products. Our new and (vastly) improved Product Customizer is what came out of all of those learning experiences.Read More…

The unfortunate reality of running an eCommerce store is that 68% of all shopping carts are abandoned. This means that over half of visitors that start checkout — not the ones that just visit, but ones that take action to purchase — will stop purchasing from you. Saving this revenue can make a significant impact on your bottom line, and we’re please to announce that we’ve got an app that will help you do so: Jilt.

As you’re all winding down with the 2014 holiday season, we hope you’re all looking forward to some much deserved downtime! However, we know a lot of you are considering ways to ensure that your Q1 revenues for 2015 don’t take the typical after-holiday dive. There are lots of strategies to use to boost your January sales (here are 7 tips from KISSmetrics), and we wanted to fill you in on a new app that can help drive conversions for your store to avoid the after-Christmas sales dip.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve recently acquired the Happy Checkout app from Holstee! The Holstee team (under the Simple Apps brand) did a great job of growing the app and we’re excited to take it to the next level. If you’ve already been using the Happy Checkout app, welcome to the ShopStorm community! We’re excited to support and improve upon another quality Shopify App.

Happy Checkout helps you to turn customers into fans and brand advocates. You can make your Thank You page work for you with Read More…